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2026-01-03 00:39:50 +0100 <yin> huge tangent but I just reminded myself of someone using sleep to efficiently sort a list of ints
2026-01-03 00:40:13 +0100 <geekosaur> snerk
2026-01-03 00:42:55 +0100 <yin> apparently they call it sleep sort now
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2026-01-03 01:32:58 +0100 <monochrom> Does it mean that if the list to be sorted is [n] then it will sleep for n units of time? So Ω(n) time for sorting a singleton list? That's efficient?
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2026-01-03 01:37:43 +0100 <geekosaur> for a specific definitoon of "efficient" 🙂
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2026-01-03 02:51:47 +0100 <epitron> You can speed it up by a factor of 1000 by only sleeping for 1ms
2026-01-03 02:52:02 +0100wennefer0(~wennefer0@user/wennefer0) wennefer0
2026-01-03 02:52:38 +0100 <epitron> Also its runtime is the largest value in the list, not the list size
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2026-01-03 02:53:10 +0100epitronsleep sort expert
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2026-01-03 03:04:44 +0100 <monochrom> > 2^64 / 1000 / 86400
2026-01-03 03:04:51 +0100 <monochrom> % 2^64 / 1000 / 86400
2026-01-03 03:04:51 +0100 <yahb2> 2.135039823346013e11
2026-01-03 03:04:55 +0100 <monochrom> That's 2 days.
2026-01-03 03:05:35 +0100 <monochrom> It means that if I sort a list of just a few 64-bit numbers I'm already waiting 2 days.
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2026-01-03 03:08:16 +0100 <monochrom> OTOH if the list has 1,000,000 numbers, we are spawning 1,000,000 threads. At that point the OS overhead of spawning so many threads becomes unbearable; and even if you find a way to tolerate it, the huge uncertainty that some threads start counting early, some others start count late, means that your sleep time cannot be as short as 1ms.
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2026-01-03 03:14:11 +0100 <monochrom> Once again the fallacy of seeing O/Θ/Ω("n") and thinking "I only see 'n', so linear time, and if I can easily make a 1000x speedup then it's fast", forgetting that really n = 2^k where k is the number of input bits, so you're looking at exponential time, at which point a 1000x speedup fails to catch up.
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